I. The effects have been compared of long-term administration of similar amounts of ethanol given either diluted in drinking water or spaced out in the form of intoxicating doses. 2. The effect of ethanol on the development of liver lesions produced by a marginal diet was examined. The measurements of growth rate, water balance, plasma glucose and electrolytes, rate of ethanol elimination, and ...

The uptake of acetate in the human forearm was studied in five fasting (14 h) subjects during 10-min periods of ergometer work at 7 and 10 kilopond-meters per minute (kpm/min). A constant arterial acetate concentration was established by administration of a small quantity of alcohol (25 g) to the subjects after a control work period. Blood flow was measured by an indicator dilution technique. A...

This study aimed at determining whether glucose-insulin-potassium (GIK) solutions modify the NADH/NAD(+) ratio during postischemic reperfusion and whether their cardioprotective effect can be attributed to this change in part through reduction of the mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) production. The hearts of 72 rats were perfused with a buffer containing glucose (5.5 mM) and hexanoat...

BACKGROUND Microorganisms can adapt to perturbations of the surrounding environment to grow. To analyze the adaptation process of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae to a high ethanol concentration, repetitive cultivation was performed with a stepwise increase in the ethanol concentration in the culture medium. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS First, a laboratory strain of S. cerevisiae was cult...

The rate and extent of dermal absorption are important in the analysis of risk from dermal exposure to toxic chemicals and for the development of topically applied drugs, barriers, insect repellents, and cosmetics. In vitro flow-through cells offer a convenient method for the study of dermal absorption that is relevant to the initial processes of dermal absorption. This study describes a physio...

background: endometriosis is a common hormone-dependent gynecologic disease with a high recurrence. laparotomy or laparoscopy is the standard surgery for the large endometrioma. also, sclerotherapy is basically used to treat different diseases one of which is endometrioma. objective: the study was designed to assess the value of transvaginal ultrasound-guided ethanol sclerotherapy in patients w...

Chronic ethanol consumption disrupts whole-body lipid metabolism. Here we tested the hypothesis that regulation of triglyceride homeostasis in adipose tissue is vulnerable to long-term ethanol exposure. After chronic ethanol feeding, total body fat content as well as the quantity of epididymal adipose tissue of male Wistar rats was decreased compared with pair-fed controls. Integrated rates of ...

catalytic isomerization of glucose to fructose by immobilized glucose isomerase in an aqueous-ethanol medium was studied. using michaelis-menten equation and haldane relationship, the main kinetic parameters were determined: kmf, vmf, kmr, vmr. by comparing the aqueous-ethanol medium with an aqueous solution, the measured values of kmr and kmf were increased in the aqueous-ethanol solution, whi...

An extraordinary high-speed synthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) was discovered by synthesizing the AuNPs in ethanol-water mixtures using a solution plasma process (SPP). The influence of the ethanol mole fraction (χethanol) in the ethanol-water mixtures on the reduction rate of gold chloride ions to AuNPs under the SPP system was studied. The results indicated that the reaction rate of the ...

Blood ethanol and acetaldehyde concentrations were compared in normal young male and female subjects after intravenous infusion of 0.5 g of ethanol/kg body weight. After the infusion was completed, females had significantly higher mean concentrations of blood ethanol than males, but a significantly lower apparent volume of distribution (Vd) of ethanol (0.56 +/- 0.06 1/kg vs 0.68 +/- 0.17 1/kg, ...